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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:50 PM Original message |
PO under the weather, but not dead. I can see a path to a modest PO |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
1. think you're probably right, and then hopefully in the inevitably weak PO can be "bulked up" later.. |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
2. "So the strongest PO we are realistically discussing isn't all that great." Not true. |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Well, that would be great |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. We're probably gonna get Schumer's version at best, more likely, the opt-out version. |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:05 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. If you have to declare something "dead" over a dozen times, it's probably still alive and kicking |
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ind_thinker2 (259 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:43 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Repubs also think some form of PO will be in final bill |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-19-09 02:37 PM Response to Reply #7 |
23. I'm with you on this. Even a weaker PO is better than none. |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
3. The House liberals are the key |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
5. I don't have a crystal ball either - but I know the faces in the ball |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:05 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Begich, Tester and the others at the top support a public option. n/t |
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andym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
6. Well the insurance companies have basically said they WILL raise premiums |
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SpartanDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
10. Harkin said yesterday there were 52 votes for the public option |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:17 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I've been taking both sides with a grain of salt |
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ind_thinker2 (259 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
12. Health Care bill that results in no control over insurance premiums will be disaster |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
13. Huh? Seems to me the public option is in pretty good shape. |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
15. A modest "public option" will be a meaningless public option. |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
16. Opinion piece? I thought you meant "Onion" piece. |
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Scarsdale Vibe (228 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
17. A robust PO added in conference still has to make it past a filibuster. |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 09:26 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. What filibuster? Who is threatening to filibuster? And if someone is, so what? |
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Scarsdale Vibe (228 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 10:06 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. You can wish the conservative Dem assholes in the Senate didn't exist, but they do. |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
18. The trick is, they make sure what lands on the President's desk isn't a piece of crap... |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 08:23 PM Response to Original message |
19. This is incorrect. We need 60 votes in the Senate to pass a conference report. |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 09:30 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. You are incorrect. |
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